2014 Call for Presentations is nowCLOSED.

The Online Learning Consortium invites you to submit a proposal for the 20th Annual International Conference, to be held October 29-31, 2014 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida in the following tracks:

Faculty & Professional Development & Support

Open, Global, Mobile

Institutional Strategies & Innovations

Student Services & Learner Support

Leadership, Values & Society

Technology & Emerging Learning Environments

Learning Effectiveness

Recordings from our 11/29/12 "Five Tips on How to Submit a Successful Conference Proposal"

Register at the submission site. Please include as much information as possible, including your biography and most current contact information. All corresponding authors need to also be registered, however, this can be completed at a later stage. OLC elects to use a robust, third-party call for paper and abstract management service. Please keep in mind that once you have registered or submitted a paper, all conference-related information can be found here at the International Conference on Online Learning website.

Once registered, return to this site to complete your submission.

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Begin the submission process by selecting your track name below.

Track: (CFP is now closed)

Description

Faculty and Professional Development & Support

Ideal papers in this track would include those topics that highlight the importance of online faculty and quality instructional design and support toward ensuring online and blended coursework that leads to student success--including but not limited to:

Papers in this track are encouraged to share evidence of practice, both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Leadership, Values and Society

This track focus is on the impact and necessity of visionary leadership and its impact on governance, policy, and programs to effectively shape and support successful implementation of online, blended, and technology-enhanced initiatives. The impetus for these initiatives might include:

Financial constraints

Changes in campus (faculty or student) demographics

Academic partnerships

Leadership development

Other indicators that impact academia

Effective research on the impact of these initiatives and their impact is strongly encouraged.

Learning Effectiveness

Ideal papers in this track would encompass theory or research-based projects focusing on improving the learning effectiveness of online or blended learning. These would include, but not be limited to papers on:

Learning theory in the online environment

Quantitative and qualitative research designs and results on issues and projects that impact student learning

Research on collaboration and community among learners

Research on diversity and cross-cultural issues in online and blended courses

The use of learning analytics to improve student success

Adaptive learning

Papers covering research on the effectiveness of these topics is strongly encouraged.

Open, Global, Mobile

Ideal papers in this track would focus on instructions technologies that are open, global, and/or mobile. Topics might include:

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) – research, models, and issues

Open educational resources

Open models

Mobile learning (iPads, smartphones, tablets, etc.)

E-textbooks for learning

Global, international education

Papers on the evidence of the impact of these technologies and learning environments are especially encouraged.

Student Services and Learner Support

Support for online and blended learning is key to successful implementation of these modalities. Ideal papers for this track would be those that discuss the issues and approaches to providing support and accessibility for those students at a distance. Research papers on the impact of providing this support are especially welcome. Topics might include facilitating the concept of: